110 PHYLACTICTTS. 



ad basin nigro-fusco ; ihorace transverso, cequato, subgranulato ; 

 elytris robustis, punctato-striatis ; antennis filiformibus, fuscis, 

 ad basin fiavis ; pedibus fiavis ; tibiis tarsi sque fusco siiffusis. . 



Long. corp. 2\ lin., lat. \\ lin. 



Oblong-ovate, subparallel, slightly depressed ; when viewed under 

 a high power clothed with a very fine pubescence throughout ; of a 

 pale flavous colour. Head short, transverse, hardly produced ; above 

 the labrum (which is fuscous) is a triangular plane depression ; at 

 the insertion of the antennae is a minute, but distinct Y-shaped 

 carination, immediately above which is a transverse fovea ; a subcir- 

 cular or obliquely angulated fovea extends between the upper and 

 inner margins of the eyes : the surface finely granulated throughout ; 

 at the base fuscous-black, and below the insertion of the antennas 

 flavous. Thorax transverse, rectangular, rectilinear; the anterior 

 angles subdepressed ; the sides submarginate ; the surface equate, 

 somewhat flat, and finely granulated. Scutellum triangular, im- 

 punctate, fuscous. Elytra rather broader than the thorax, subparallel, 

 punctate-striate, clothed throughout with a pale flavous pubescence, 

 so fine that it does not conceal the striae or the punctures. Antenna 

 robust, filiform, fuscous, the three basal joints being flavous. Legs : 

 the anterior rufo-flavous, the posterior pale flavous, the tibiae and 

 tarsi being suffused with fuscous. 



Brazil. In the collection of M. Chevrolat. 



Genus 15. PHYLACTICUS*. 



Labrum transverswm, subsinuatvm. 



Palm maxillares elongati, filiformes, art. 2"*V*3^ ad apicem dila- 

 tatis. 



Palpi labiales subcylindrici. 



Antenna filiformes, sat robustce, aliquando ad apicem obsolete incras- 



satai. 

 Caput verticale, vice productum, plerumque inter oculos foveolatum aut 



carinatum. 

 Thorax transversus (interdum sidjquadratus), ad apicem pi 'us minus 



const rictus, depressus. 

 Elytra robusta, brevia, ad apicem aliquando subattenuata. 

 Pedes : tibiae anteriores ad basin ipsum curvata;, havd ad apicem di- 



latatce; tarsi breves, art. 2 nd0 minuto, S ti0 lato : femora postica 



incrassatissima, subovata ; tibia; ad apicem subdUatat<e, sim- 



plices, hand dente munitce ; tarsi brerrs. attenvati, art. 2" rfo et 3"° 



minutis. 



* (pvXaicriKof. vigilans. 



